VAMPIRE QUOTES V
quotations about vampires
Surveys conducted by the Atlanta Vampire Alliance have found that there are at least five thousand people in the U.S. who identify as real vampires.... These communities have largely kept to themselves, knowing enough about public perception to not want to attract prying eyes.
YANAN WANG
"'Real' vampires exist and there are over 5,000 of them in the United States", National Post, October 26, 2016
The traits of modern-day vampires are pretty well established. They have fangs, drink human blood, and can't see themselves in mirrors. They can be warded off with garlic, or killed with a stake through the heart. Some, like Dracula, are aristocrats who live in castles. But vampires didn't start out so clearly defined. Scholars suspect that the modern conception of these Halloween monsters evolved from various traditional beliefs that were held throughout Europe. These beliefs centered around the fear that the dead, once buried, could still harm the living. Often, these legends arose from a misunderstanding of how bodies decompose. As a corpse's skin shrinks, its teeth and fingernails can appear to have grown longer. And as internal organs break down, a dark "purge fluid" can leak out of the nose and mouth. People unfamiliar with this process would interpret this fluid to be blood and suspect that the corpse had been drinking it from the living.
BECKY LITTLE
"The Bloody Truth About Vampires", National Geographic, October 26, 2016
In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.
CRAIG FERGUSON
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, March 19, 2012
What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire?
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Guilty Pleasures
Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes.
RICHELLE MEAD
Succubus Blues
I'm a vampire, babe,
suckin' blood
from the earth
I'm a vampire, baby,
suckin' blood
from the earth.
Well, I'm a vampire, babe,
sell you twenty barrels worth.
Good times are comin'.
NEIL YOUNG
"Vampire Blues"
If there's one thing real vampires seem to have in common, it is their reluctance to tell the world about who, and what, they are.
KIM WALL
"Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood", The Guardian, August 15, 2015
Give me the chance to dance romance
Don't run, I'm not the sun
So much at stake ... oh!
Bad choice of words
OUTKAST
"Dracula's Wedding"
Wow! When you become a vampire, men become broad shouldered and muscle-bound and women become tall and thin! You ever think of selling this on QVC?
PETE ABRAMS
"Vampires", Sluggy Freelance, September 27, 1998
The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.
ANNE RICE
interview, The Daily Beast, November 23, 2011
I'm looking for someone to quench my thirst-for all eternity.
ELLEN SCHREIBER
Vampireville
The world is a vampire, sent to drain
Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
And what do I get, for my pain?
Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
SMASHING PUMPKINS
"Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
There's something about death. It's like trying to understand our own mortality and immortality. That's why society is so into things like vampires, because they don't die.
SHERYL LEE
Los Angeles Times, 1991
Sudden as a knife you thrust
into my sorry heart
and strong as a host of demons came,
gaudy and libertine,
to make in my corrupted mind
your bed and bedlam there;
Beast, who bind me to you close
as convict to his chains.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
"The Vampire"
Blood sucking creatures of the night
Nocturnal spectre hiding from the light
Cries screaming out every fright
Eagerly awaiting plight
Apparitions from the pits of Hell
Death plagues the streets in which they dwell
Demented lust, the secrets they must keep
Addicted to your blood
At dawn they sleep
SLAYER
"At Dawn They Sleep"
Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.
ANNE RICE
Interview with the Vampire
hey black dress moves in a blue movie graverobbers from outer space well, your pulmonary trembles in your outstretched arm tremble so wicked two inch nails micro waist with a pale white feline face inclination eyebrows to there mistress to the horror kid cemetary of the white love ghoul, well take off your shabby dress come and lay beside me come a little bit closer come a little bit closer come a little bit closer come a little bit closer to this vampira, vampira, vampira hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
MISFITS
"Vampira"
I've got a baby vampire in me,
nobody knows, nobody knows.
I saw you put it in me like a seed
that was as big as a stone.
And all I can do is watch it grow
and it comes and it goes.
It comes and it goes
and it's turning me into someone I don't know.
HELIUM
"Baby Vampire Made Me"
Vampires are purposely seductive -- they are feminine in their flirtatious, provocative behavior and yet aggressively masculine in satisfying their needs.
CAROLINE JOAN PICART & CECIL E. GREEK
Monsters in and Among Us
My vampires Lestat and Louis and Armand, they look more like angels than the feral Dracula. And they're not repulsive like Dracula, they're very seductive and beautiful. To me that added to the drama, to the tragic dilemma of the vampire, that immortality in the form of a vampire gave him so much power, and so many gifts, and so much charm and glamour.
ANNE RICE
interview, Lightspeed Magazine, June 2012